Are you a movie buff?

Great games draw ideas from a theme.

It could be from a book or an existing game title. Or even a worldwide outbreak, like Pandemic.

Some even make games from their own experiences, like emotional trauma or crime stories.

This movie game was inspired by a well-known brainy game called Wordle, but you work with movie scenes instead of words! If you’re a cinephile yourself, you should try it out!

Not that big of a fan of movies? Try one of these seven free games and see which one clicks with you. Who knows, you might find your new daily puzzle game!

Five game insights we think will pique your interest!

Regarding the game we discussed above, there’s a sequel (well, sort of) to it. Cine2Nerdle is, in our opinion, a more hardcore quiz-like game for movie lovers. There’s still the guessing mechanic involved and there’s more information to work with, but this time you have to line them up in a way that they can identify four or five movies in one go. 

P.S. We recently interviewed the creator of this game for our upcoming podcast! We’ll let you know when it’s about to be released.

If you have loved ones who are slowly nearing the older age spectrum, then it’s important to help monitor and maintain their brain health. Here’s a book filled with puzzles with brain health in mind that are both entertaining and mentally stimulating. In the U.S., dementia and mental degradation are serious problems, and helping your loved ones with books like these is key to lessening the possibility of mental disorders associated with old age.

The mental benefits of games aren’t exclusive to older people—they also work with younger players too! Some board games can help boost academic performance, like Othello and Monopoly. Children and young teens can have fun and learn at the same time.

Many instructors and institutions have been trying to adopt educational games as part of their teaching methods. The first-ever recorded jigsaw puzzle was made to help local children with their map skills, and based on this article from the University of Cambridge, math can be made a lot more fun with the right game as well.

When it comes to learning, many students tend to dread slogging through rows and rows of text and uninteresting topics. That’s why it’s important to have a teacher who knows how to enrich in a way that strikes the attention of learners. Throwing syllabi or having too many pop quizzes just makes a class a chore to do in a day, but having students engage in the lesson with real interest makes them look forward to it.

That’s why many well-liked high school teachers and university professors tend to have grandiose or interesting ways of teaching.

Some play fun pranks or tricks on their students, and others come up with interesting activities to hook students into a lesson. Games are one of the best ways to make students pay attention and learn by themselves.

And in the words of Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian poet, philosopher and journalist:

“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”

Thanks for reading this week’s newsletter issue!

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You know you’ve reached a milestone as an instructor if you let students play an educational game and they end up saying:

Hey, Good Game!

That’s all for this week. See you next Friday!

-The Hey, Good Game Team